Martin Scorse’s Silence composers, Kim Allen Kluge and Kathryn Kluge, Michael Riesman, Philip Glass’ music director and conductor, and Brett Berns, the director of BANG! The Bert Berns Story will be Tom Needham’s special guests on Thursday, April 13, on WUSB’s the Sounds of Film.

Please listen in on Sunday Street (from 9 AM to 12 noon) during April when these guests, who all have recent album releases to their credit, will visit Sunday Street and join program host Charlie Backfish for conversation and music:

Sunday April 2nd - Pete Mancini, frontman of Butcher's Blind, with his first solo album, Foothill Freeway on Paradiddle Records

Sunday, April 30th - Bluesman Brooks Williams, with two recent releases to his credit: My Turn Now, with several of his originals, and Brooks Blues, a collection of classic blues tunes given the Brooks Williams treatment.

The legendary Larry Sparks will be making an appearance on WUSB’s Stony Brook Jamboree on April 10th at 6:00 pm! A member of the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, this king of the flat top guitar and soulful singing has more than 50 years in music. Larry has released such hits as John Deere Tractor, A Face in the Crowd, Tennessee 1949, Blue Virginia Blues, I Just Want To Thank You Lord, Love of the Mountains, Goodbye Little Darlin’, You Could Have Called, Tribute to Hank Williams, Green Pastures in the Sky… and the list goes on. Larry has performed at such world famous venues as the Grand Ole Opry, Austin City Limits television show on PBS, Song of the Mountains on PBS, etc. You won’t want to miss this American music legend!

Pedal steel guitar innovator Robert Randolph’s latest album Got Soul is jubilant and energetic, full of reverb and motivation. It’s a jolt of positivity that comes at the right time for many.

“Everybody’s sorta depressed with a lot of stuff going on in the country and the world,” Randolph said during an interview for the April 3 episode of Country Pocket on WUSB. “People are just looking for something like this to pick them up.”

Count Darius Rucker among those who received this boost. His guest vocals on the track “Love Do What It Do” are among the best in his career largely because it’s so obvious he’s having the time of his life jamming along with Randolph and the family band.

Tune in to Captain Phil's Planet this Thursday for an aural journey through the world of PROG music. In the 4:00 PM hour, there will be an exclusive interview with Lainey Schooltree. She is the composer of the new Prog Rock Opera, Heterotopia, which will have its first public performance at Oberon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 31, at 9:00 PM.